Week 7 - Alternate Assignment

I'd just like to say that my putting this together makes me respect all the work that Dr. Newberry has done in creating our audio files even more than I already did and my respect for voice actors for film and television has increased exponentially. I don't know how many times I made it through most of the recording and then flubbed the ending. Ugh!

Still, I found the process to be INCREDIBLY rewarding and I look forward to the creation of more videos  (over a LENGTHY timeframe) for use in my classroom both by myself and my students. The piece that has bothered me the most since the creation of my first set of how to videos at the start of first semester (for my students) this year was the lack of subtitles. As a visual person, reading the words while hearing them has ALWAYS helped me to increase what I take away and I imagine the same is true for many others.

I had originally tried to take my old video and import it to imovie so that I could add subtitles, but that was a hot mess. I then found camtasia(the pay to play service like my good old friend jing) which was an upgrade because it allowed me to a) add subtitles on top of my screen recorded loveliness and b) allowed me to save it in formats other than swf (the only one allowed by jing). To make it even better they gave me a free 30-day trial! Yay for free!!!

I then thought to just play my old video and record it using camtasia, wham, bam, thank you ma'am done video (once subtitles were added). I even went so far as to try to use my Mac's speech to text function. This is what it gave me:

Scissors

You basically all gratin café or Wednesday which is Dilmus.com/Clear now is the sandwich in the three functions that you want okay so I’m actually look first

Function

This is what I actually said:

Ok, so the first thing you want to do is to go the online graphing calculator website which is demsos.com/calculator. OK. Now what you want to do is decide which of the 3 functions that you are going to look at.

Then I started to really watch and listen to my old video and I HATED it. All these this's and it's... Where was the specificity? Ugh.

So then I rewrote the script, made it more general. It's really hard to be informal when you're typing everything out, but it makes it better for the viewer, so... enjoy!

I'd appreciate any feedback. I may actually buy Camtasia to use in the future and would like to actually use this video for this project again next year. If you're interested in reading about the project, then please click here. I apologize in advance that some of the equation pieces (like parentheses) are missing.

Cheers,

Michelle